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Title: Somatic embryogenesis in forestry: A practical approach to cloning the best trees

Author: Diner, Alex M.

Date: 1999

Source: In: Wheeler, Robert, ed. Under the canopy; forestry and forest products newsletter of the Alaska Cooperative Extension. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service: 7-8.

Description: Trees as well as humans have two basic cell types based on genetic content: somatic cells and gametic or reproductive cells. Somatic cells, such as skin cells or the sapwood cells in a tree, have at least twice (2n) the base set of chromosomes. The reproductive cells (gametic cells) have a single (n) set of chromosomes.

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Diner, Alex M.  1999.  Somatic embryogenesis in forestry: A practical approach to cloning the best trees.   In: Wheeler, Robert, ed. Under the canopy; forestry and forest products newsletter of the Alaska Cooperative Extension. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service: 7-8.